GOP admits vote fraud (and they say you can't make this up)

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First they said it didn't exist, now it turns out it did - in droves - and they nicely compiled a list of cases, except wouldn't you know it - whenever a party affilitation is mentioned, it turns out they're all Democrats committing the fraud! Snipped from their website: http://www.gop.com/ycmtu.htm

08.20.07
The Northwest Indiana Times reports that a former East Chicago councilman, Levones Tolbert, pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor count of making unauthorized poll entries and was sentenced to 30 days probation. Tolbert was the highest-ranking official charged after a Joint Vote Fraud Task Force of Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter and County Prosecutor Bernard Carter investigated the discredited May 2003 Democratic mayoral primary. In that election, former East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick's campaign manufactured a razor-thin victory with tainted absentee ballots. The Northwest Indiana Times has the rest of the story.
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12.06.06
Robert “Bosko” Grkinich, a Democrat precinct committeeman from Schererville, has been charged with 20 felony counts of voter fraud after allegedly illegally influencing non-English speaking voters to cast an absentee ballot for his political ally. The case against Grkinich is the first to go to trial of 52 people charged as a result of a nearly 3-year investigation by the Joint Vote Fraud Task Force of Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter and Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter. The task force looked into the discredited May 2003 Democratic primary in which the East Chicago mayoral results and Schererville town judge results were overturned. The (Munster) Times has the rest of the story.

10.15.07
William Mike Butcher, 50, and Norman Crouch, 41, are two of 13 people charged in connection with irregularities in the May 2006 Democratic primary. Butcher and Crouch pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to buy votes. Both have testified that they paid Bath County residents $40 to $100 to vote for certain Bath County politicians. Three Bath County elected officials have pleaded guilty or have been convicted in connection with the vote-buying case. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Hood sentenced Butcher to three years probation and to serve weekends in a county jail in November and December. Crouch also received three years probation and one month of weekend incarceration beginning in November. ("2 sentenced in eastern Kentucky vote buying in ’06 primary”, The Lexington Herald-Leader, 10/16/07)

10.03.07
On Tuesday, Bath County Sheriff Calvin “Randy” Armitage pleaded guilty to one count of perjury in U.S. District Court in Lexington. Armitage is the 13th person and third public official to be indicted in a federal investigation into irregularities in the May 2006 Democratic primary in Bath County. As a condition of Armitage’s guilty plea, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Hood required him to resign as Sheriff by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Armitage, who was set to go to trial Tuesday morning on vote-buying and perjury charges, admitted that he lied to a federal grand jury in September 2006 when he testified that he never gave anyone money to buy votes for him. He will be sentenced on January 14, and could face five years in prison. (“Bath sheriff pleads guilty to perjury, agrees to resign,” The Lexington Herald-Leader, 10/03/07)

09.25.07
Three people charged in connection with widespread vote fraud during the May 2006 Democratic primary in Bath County were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Lexington . In June, Steven and Belinda Crouch and Anthony "Buck" White each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to buy votes, using money supplied by primary candidate, Walter Shrout or Bath County contractor Roosevelt"Sonny" Swartz. The three admitted that they paid some of the county's poorest residents to vote for Shrout, who later won the election. In three separate hearings, U.S. District Judge Joseph Hood sentenced Steven Crouch, 37, to five months in prison and five months of home incarceration. Belinda Crouch, 30, received three years' probation, but must spend five weekends in the Montgomery County jail. And, White, 54, was sentenced to three years' probation. More than a dozen people have been charged in the case, including Bath County Sheriff Randy Armitage who will go to trial October 2. ("Three sentenced in Bath vote fraud”, The Lexington Herald-Leader, 9/25/07)
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04.24.07
State Sen. Johnny Ray Turner (D) was sentenced yesterday to three months' home detention and one year of probation for "non-willful" vote buying, closing out a long federal vote-fraud investigation in Eastern Kentucky. The Democrat from Drift, who is the Senate's minority caucus chair, said he will not appeal the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell. The government dropped a felony vote-fraud indictment against Turner in December in exchange for his guilty plea to a misdemeanor violation of allowing his campaign to make expenditures for the purpose of influencing voters. (“Senator gets home detention; had pleaded guilty to letting election money be used for vote fraud,” The Lexington Herald-Leader, 04/24/07)

More: Full list of cases here: http://www.gop.com/votefraud.htm

I'll spare you the rest, but obviously they took each incident, many of which are low-tier elections, and made a separate entry for each and every participant. The word "Republic" or the "(R)" affiliation is not to be found.

Gosh, maybe they did succeed in restoring honor and dignity to the White House! I would have never guessed that we were that bad. Thank goodness I found the article.

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1. The FEC has been "deleted" because they only have

two of a six person committee. Plus their funding mostly cut off.

The states can do it if they had the will. The Constitution allowes for punishment of election crime doesn't it?